Cretascymnus beauryi
No picture of Cretascymnus beauryi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cretascymnus beauryi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretascymnusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Cretascymnus beauryi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous88%
- Paleocene13%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Cretascymnus beauryi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cretascymnus beauryi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretascymnus beauryi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Parasquatina zitteli7 sites
- Anomotodon plicatus4 sites
- Hexanchus microdon4 sites
- Eoetmopterus davidi2 sites
- Etmopteridae2 sites
- Proetmopterus lukasi2 sites
- Sclerorhynchus2 sites
- Anomotodon1 site
- Chlamydoselachus1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Coupatezia1 site
- Fredipristis eximia1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Mitsukurinidae1 site
- Palaeogaleus1 site
- Protoxynotus mayrmelnhofi1 site
- Squaliformes1 site
- Squalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cretascymnus beauryi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Shifts in composition of northern Tethyan elasmobranch assemblages during the last millennia of the Cretaceous7
- Revealing elasmobranch diversity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Central Tethys (Byala, Bulgaria)1
Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cretascymnus beauryi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cretascymnus beauryi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretascymnus beauryi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCretascymnus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feichtinger et al. 2022